St mother teresa biography movie

There is some ever-present and spiritual magnetism about St. Teresa of Calcutta, better known as Mother Teresa.

No matter that this year marks the 25th anniversary of her death; her strong charisma remains fresh.

It is no less present in a new movie about her life and work, Mother Teresa: No Greater Love, which will premiere on Oct. 3 in U.S. theaters in more than 960 locations.

The film opens where her mission began: tending the sick, the dying and the destitute of Kolkata.

Footage shows her tending to them as in her own voice she proclaims the basis of her mission: “Hunger is not only for a piece of bread. Hunger is for love — the desire, the longing to be loved.

St mother teresa biography movie

The lonely people suffer terrible hunger. And nakedness is not only for a piece of cloth. Nakedness, the loss of human dignity, the respect that you and I long to have, they also long [to have]. That man, lying in the street, eaten up by wo